This guest blog was written by Gabriela Martin, Program Director, Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation. Think of Illinois and you likely think of corn, soybeans, Route 66 and Abraham Lincoln. Maybe also the Willis Tower (formerly the Sears Tower). But...

I once heard a statistic that said that if everyone in the world lived the way we do in the U.S., it would take five planets worth of natural resources to do so. This is obviously impossible. Our unsustainable lifestyles...

It’s not as if the Morningside Crossing project is short on ambition. The team is taking an abandoned 1897 elementary school recently acquired by developer AM Rodriguez, retrofitting it and its 1929 addition to the rigorous Passivhaus standard, and adding a new Passivhaus wing....

The buildings industry has long been looking beyond component-level energy-saving measures to achieve the next level of efficiency in buildings. In 2015, the Alliance to Save Energy launched the Systems Efficiency Initiative (SEI) – a multi-year collaboration among industry leaders,...

Staying in town after the forum wraps on the April 19? Join the Pittsburgh 2030 District for an evening of celebration, networking, and a short presentation for the data nerd in each of us. Get full details below and register...

Published in MicroGrid Knowledge: Pittsburgh wants an airport microgrid. And developers — a lot of them — want to build it. The Allegheny County Airport Authority has received 64 responses to its request for expressions of interest seeking a developer to...

This guest blog was originally published in GreenBiz on March 6, 2018. See post at GreenBiz The oculus inside the zero-net-energy VanDusen Botanical Garden Visitor Center in Vancouver, Canada. Credit: Kent Kalberg/Vancouver Parks Board   The last  two years have...

According to New Buildings Institute, the number of net zero projects doubled from 2012 to 2014. Yet confusion around the term “net zero” prevents it from reaching its full potential, an even wider, faster adoption across the country. So what...

When does a path become a road? Is it volume of travelers, difficulty of terrain or perhaps the need to arrive more rapidly at the destination to create the attention and resources needed to smooth out the path? For zero...

The net-zero energy (NZE) movement is gaining momentum, revolutionizing building design and construction and presenting new career opportunities for students. As a student myself with a strong interest in sustainable design and building science, I have been closely following the...